Well another year has come and gone at the National Association of Broadcasters and here’s some of the things I saw this year. Wasn’t able to get around as much since I was working all day Mon / Tues in the Small Tree Booth but still saw some good stuff. 4k, Storage and Data Management …
Some Random Thoughts Before NAB 2013 Opens Coming to you from 36,000 feet over these fine United States as we jet from the home of this year’s Final Four Championship to Sin City. I figured this was a good a time as any to share my thoughts for this year’s annual love fest for all …
UPDATED 8/24/2014: New Mac Pro added. AJA Kona Boards to be listed this week, smaller VTRs next week. We are continuing the transition of our hardware in the shop and we’ll have a bunch of equipment coming up on this page throughout the next few weeks including some smaller VTRs All of our machines have …
UPDATE: 7/5/2012 - ALL COPIES HAVE BEEN SOLD. - SALE HAS ENDED. Avid Symphony 6 available for sale at the FCP CrossGrade price we purchased them at, though I’m going to make it an even $1,000 each. As the official cross grade has ended, the current price of Symphony 6 has reverted back to …
UPDATED: 6/25: VTR success and Workstations at the bottom. A continuation on my “Cautionary Tales of an FCP Switcher.” Getting Caught Up on our Series As mentioned at the end of the original article, we moved our PBS series over the Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 with the reasoning that if we had to flatten a …
Originally intended as a blog post, Creative Cow has published my latest article “A Cautionary Tale for the Final Cut Pro Switcher.” This article details our attempts to move a current series over to Avid 6, grade the series in Resolve, and how that series ended up on Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 after just three …
I made a comment at this past week’s Atlanta Cutters meeting that surprised many of those in attendance. It was something along the lines of “I’m anticipating our Avid’s will be a one year solution to our editing workflow and then we’ll see where we are next year.” In other words, Avid meets our …
A few weeks ago I mused on replacing my Mac Pros with iMacs in part because of cost and in part because so much software can run incredibly well on these machines. Well NAB 2012 definitely validated that idea. iMacs dominated the show floor in South Hall running just about every software imagineable. …
NAB 2012 was a lot of fun for me as I was asked to appear in multiple videos and interviews throughout the event. Here’s the links in one handy dandy location. Enjoy! “Cutting It Close with Mitch Jacobson” presented by LiveStream. I’m approx. 15:10 into this video talking Post to Good Eats. The …
Folks always ask me what to see at the NAB shows each year. Obviously most of my “must sees” revolve around Post Production since that is the main focus of me business, but I do try to walk the entire show at last once to see what’s out there. If you want to find me …
If you’re contemplating moving to Windows and you own a pretty recent Mac Pro, one of the great advantages today is that most of the “Mac 3rd party hardware” also operates in a PC. This is awesome because so far it’s saved me over $2500 in new cards I would have had to purchase …
Springtime is upon us and that can mean only two things. Allergies are raging across the United States and it’s time for the annual National Association of Broadcasters convention. Before you head off to Las Vegas, here’s some tips from this seasoned attendee to make the most of your time. “Mirage” is a great …